The Danish marine pump specialist Svanehøj has been awarded a contract to supply pump methods for two LNG fuelled carriers that can transport liquid CO2 to the Northern Lights project’s storage facilities in Norway.
2021 has been a document 12 months for Svanehøj.
Northern Lights is creating infrastructure to transport CO2 from industrial emitters in Norway and different European countries by ship to a receiving terminal in western Norway for intermediate storage, earlier than being transported by pipeline for permanent storage in a geological reservoir 2,600 m underneath the seabed.
The two CO2 carriers are being built at Dalian Shipbuilding (DSIC) in China and are anticipated to be operational in 2024. Both vessels may have a capacity of 7,500 m3 of liquid CO2. Svanehøj will deliver two 15 m deepwell cargo pumps of for each ship. In this venture, Svanehøj’s multigas technology shall be proven to its full potential, because the buyer needs the pumps to also be used to dealing with LPG pure fuel. Over เกจวัดความดันแก๊ส , Svanehøj has provided cargo pump techniques to more than 1,a hundred LPG tankers all over the world.
“We have gained the order through our long-standing partner, TGE Marine, which designs and delivers full cargo dealing with techniques for the CO2 carriers,” mentioned Thomas Uhrenholt Nielsen, sales director, Cargo Gas at Svanehøj. “TGE has chosen our deepwell cargo gas pumps, which they’re very acquainted with from quite a few LPG tankers.”
Svanehøj has been supplying cargo pump systems for CO2 carriers because the late Nineteen Nineties.
“Thanks to our experience from the comparatively few CO2 ships built so far, we are part of the dialogue on a quantity of of the upcoming CCS (carbon capture & Storage) tasks. CCS is a focus space in our business technique, and the order from TGE for Northern Lights is therefore of great strategic importance. This could be a big marketplace for us throughout the subsequent few years,” addedsaid Uhrenholt Nielsen.
Svanehøj started 2022 with a new “Powering a greater future” technique and a target of doubling its turnover to DKK1 billion (approximately US$143 million) by the tip of 2026. The strategy is primarily targeted on supporting the transition to climate-neutral shipping, but in addition on investing in new business areas, including CCS.
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